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Sector analysis: Rail

3 February 2012

As high-speed rail projects proliferate across the globe, the direct and facultative market remains a crucial risk transfer tool for the burgeoning rail sector. Inside FAC rides the rails… Read more

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Sector analysis: Space

13 January 2012

Overcapacity and stagnant rates are a familiar tale in global reinsurance, but the satellite market might well have been one catastrophe away from a market turn in 2011, finds Inside FAC… Read more

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Country profile: Thailand

12 December 2011

With BI losses poised to rival property damage claims and CBI covers already triggered, the Thai floods may prove a watershed moment for D&F business in south-east Asia… Read more

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Country profile: Denmark

7 November 2011

With a small local insurance market and substantial sums being invested in major single renewable energy risks, there's little doubt that Denmark punches above its weight in facultative terms. Inside FAC investigates… Read more

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Country profile: Afghanistan

7 October 2011

It's a country that continues to make the headlines for all the wrong reasons, but look closer and you'll find a nascent financial sector thanks, in no small part, to the encouragement of facultative writers. Inside FAC provides a tour of Afghanistan… Read more

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Sector analysis: Mining

7 September 2011

The 2011 cat season suggests substantial losses will soon hit the mining insurance sector that rival those of 2008, but precise figures have yet to materialise. Inside FAC ponders whether mining's bark is worse than its bite… Read more

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Country profile: France

18 July 2011

Overcapacity and the favouring of direct and treaty reinsurance suggest a sluggish French fac market, but there is still fierce competition for accounts, as Inside FAC discovers… Read more

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Country Profile: Southeast US

13 June 2011

With the south-eastern US battered by flood and tornado and gearing up for the hurricane season, Inside FAC looks at the implications for (re)insurers… Read more

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Country profile: Middle East

16 May 2011

The Middle East continues to be one of the most intriguing regions for the facultative market. Up to 2008 it seemed that not much could go wrong, as booming construction and rising oil prices drove unprecedented regional growth, attracting a swathe of brokers and reinsurers to the region. Then, of course, all this was set back by the financial crisis, with private investment in major construction projects substantially drying up… Read more

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Country profile: Brazil

15 April 2011

The Brazilian reinsurance party which had been ongoing since 2008 has come crashing to a halt thanks to new regulations that limit what international companies can provide. Inside FAC asks just how serious a setback this is likely to be for global reinsurers… Read more

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